High level gear

[sees_all1]

I know the F2P game like the back of my hand, but I'm a noob at P2P.

 

What are about 20 pieces or sets of weapons or armour that are tradeable and considered "High level gear"

 

Off the top of my (empty) head, Godswords and Spirit Shields. What else?

[Sy_Accursed]

godswords, spirit shield, the 3 sets of nex armour, the bow nex drops, bandos, armadyl, dfs(?) then your back down into like Sol whip barrows etc.

[Cheat]

Bandos and Armadyl armour sets. Torva, Virtus and Pernix armours. I suppose you could consider barrows armours. Dragonfire shield.

[Quyneax]

Eh depends, I'd put nex gear, elysian, divine as only tradeable high-level gear, maybe arcane/spectral or niche items such as 3rd age ranged coif. The rest of it is all chaotic/ovl/turm/yak + steel titan and other stats.

 

Of course there's some fairly expensive gear like Bandos, Armadyl, dragonfire shields, claws etc. Godswords are not high-level, they are only used for corping and castle wars, lol.

[Soma2035]

Virtus, Pernix, Torva, Divine and Elysian spirit shields.

 

I wouldn't call Bandos / Armadyl high level gear. Nor Godswords.

[Alphanos]

Hope it's okay to post this link.

 

http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/top100.ws?list=1&scale=1

 

This is the Jagex-provided list of the 100 most valuable items traded within the past 30 days. Most top-level gear should be on there, although some staples like dragon boots are cheap enough that they're not listed.

[Dragonlordjl]

Virtus, Pernix, Torva, Divine and Elysian spirit shields.

 

I wouldn't call Bandos / Armadyl high level gear. Nor Godswords.

So, something has to be ludicrously expensive to be high level gear?

 

Bandos and Armadyl are the best non-degrading armors in the game, and as such, they should be considered "high-level."

 

I do agree that Godswords aren't high level gear, though. Frankly, aside from the niche use of Corping, all but the BGS have really no use at all.

[Helm_Lardar]

Bandos isn't necessarily the best armour. Guthan's has better defence, for instance, despite it's lack of a strength bonus.

[iamsomebody1]

Best melee gear is bandos/vesta/statius/torva they all have there uses somewhere

[Soma2035]

Virtus, Pernix, Torva, Divine and Elysian spirit shields.

 

I wouldn't call Bandos / Armadyl high level gear. Nor Godswords.

So, something has to be ludicrously expensive to be high level gear?

 

Bandos and Armadyl are the best non-degrading armors in the game, and as such, they should be considered "high-level."

 

I do agree that Godswords aren't high level gear, though. Frankly, aside from the niche use of Corping, all but the BGS have really no use at all.

 

Who are you to define high level? And degrading isn't relevant unless the costs are unreasonable, which only applies to the revenant dropped items.

 

Look at Soul Wars cape for instance. It generally takes fairly high skill levels to earn, some amount of skill, a fair amount of effort. And it has unparalleled bonuses for that particular equipment slot. Look at Divine/Elysian spirit shields. They come from possibly the most dangerous enemy in the game (barring Dungeoneering), are extremely valuable, and have good stats along with unique and useful abilities.

 

Now look at Bandos chestplate. Its beaten defensively by Torag's platebody, Guthan's platebody, and Dharok's platebody. Its beaten offensively by Statius's platebody and Vesta's chainbody. Its tied with offensively by Fighter Torso. Its prayer bonus is curbstomped by Proselyte. And it's matched offensively + in prayer, plus completely outshined defensively, by Torva platebody. And then there's Void, which is also a viable option in many cases. It's not hard to get either - last I checked, the whole set costs less than 40M, which doesn't take much time to make at all even if you're low level.

 

Armadyl might be a little bit better on account of it having less competition (we have far less good Range gear than melee). But I definitely don't consider Bandos high level at all.

 

EDIT: Also, I was only listing TRADEABLE high-level gear before, as the topic creator added for tradeable instances. There's a lot of other gear I consider high level that's not tradeable. Elite Void, Ardougne Cloak 3, Chaotic weapons, imbued rings, barrow gloves all come to mind.

[Zaaps1]

Nex stuff, Divine/Elysian, Chaotics, Bandos, Armadyl, Elite Void (+deflector), Imbued MA Rings, Fire Cape, Fury, Barrows Gloves, Dragon Claws, Bronze Dagger (p+).

 

And then little cheap items such as SoL for general use.

 

Godswords and DFS, while kinda expensive and COULD be useful somewhere, are really outclassed as a blanket statement.

[IHasChicken]

I wanted to do something, so here is the list of the top 2 to 4 pieces of gear for any inventory slot, assuming you have at least 80 in all combat stats, and really the conceivable best bank of any pro RSers. No PVP armours were included because they're stupid and I hate them :thumbdown:

 

MELEE:

 

HELM Torva Helmet > Helm of Neitiznot = Verac's Helm - they each have different uses but they're the only real viable contenders outside of helmets that have set effects (like Dharok's)

AMULET Amulet of Fury - best amulet slot due to it's balanced attack, strength and prayer bonuses.

LEGS Torva Platelegs > Bandos Tassets = Verac's Skirt = Proselyte Cuisse, Torva for the Strength and freakish lifepoint boost, Bandos for Strength, Verac's for the balance of Prayer bonus + Defence, Proselyte for the pure prayer bonus

PLATEBODY Torva Platebody > Bandos Platebody = Guthans/Dharoks/Torags Platebody = Proselyte Plate- same as platelegs.

BOOTS Dragon Boots - Always. Don't consider anything else.

CAPES Fire Cape = Soul Wars cape - Fire Cape for the strength bonus, Soul Wars cape for the prayer bonus.

RINGS Imbued Berserker Ring > Ring of Vigour = Berserker Ring - no real substitute for the Imbued Berserker ring as strength bonus anywhere currently is more useful than attack bonus, and rings don't give prayer bonus. Ring of Vigour is a nice substitute for a non-imbued Berserker Ring

GLOVES Barrows RFD Gloves - no substitute ever EVER!

SHIELDS (non bossing) Dragon Defender no substitute ever EVER!

SHIELDS (bossing) Divine > Elysian > Spectral = DFS = Dragon Defender > BSS - get the Dragon defender and either the Spectral or the DFS depending on what bosses you do. A DDef isn't hard to get anyways.

WEAPONS (non bossing, not waterfiends) Chaotic Rapier > Abyssal Whip - Not really much else to say

WEAPONS (non bossing, waterfiends or anything else majorly weak to crush) Chaotic Maul > Saradomin Sword/Zamorakian Spear. - nothing to say

WEAPONS (bossing) Chaotic Rapier = Chaotic Longsword = Chaotic Maul = Zamorakian Spear - you should try to get all 4 of these melee weapons so you're set for any type of melee bossing.

WEAPONS (non healing special) Dragon Claws > Armadyl Godsword > Dragon dagger (p++) - Simple Heirachy

WEAPONS (healing special) Elite Enhanced Excalibur > Saradomin Godsword - Again pretty simple

 

RANGED:

 

HELMET Pernix Cowl > Armadyl Helmet = Verac's helmet - depending if you need tankage or not, both of these helmets are cheap anyways so it's all good. Pernix cowl [cabbage]s on them both though

BODY Pernix Body > Armadyl Chestplate > Karils Leathertop - pretty straightforward

LEGS Pernix Chaps > Armadyl Chainskirt > Karil's Skirt - again, pretty self explanatory

AMULET Amulet of Fury no substitute

BOOTS Ranger Boots > Snakeskin boots - Ranged is too easy to pin down the best gear, mostly because our combat triangle is broken lol

RING Imbued Archer's Ring > Archer's ring - SNORE

CAPE Ava's Alerter > Ava's Accumulator > Ava's Attractor - TOO SIMPLE

SHIELD Unholy Book = Any of the Melee Shields, follow the order there - If you need defence, go with the shield, if you don't, go with the full unholy book.

GLOVES Barrows RFD gloves - Does this need to even be said?

WEAPONS Dragon Darts = Hand Cannon = Rune Knives/Darts = Chaotic Crossbow = Karil's Crossbow - Each has their niche use, will change to the situation

AMMO Ruby Bolts (e) = Diamond Bolts (e) = Hand Cannon Shot = Rune Knives/Darts = Bolt Racks - See above.

 

MAGIC:

 

HELMET Virtus Mask > 3rd Age Mage Hat > Farseer Helmet > Ahrim's hood - pretty simple

AMULET Arcane Stream > Amulet of Fury - Arcane stream is the [cabbage].

BODY Virtus Robetop > Ahrim's Robetop - Pretty basic

LEGS Virtus Robelegs > Ahrim's Robelegs - Again, pretty basic

RING Imbued Seers > Seers Ring - Again, pretty basic

CAPE Magic Arena Cape - No substitute, you don't need pray that much anywhere you mage anyways because who mages really lol.

BOOTS Infinity Boots > Mystic Boots - Lol Infnities are so cheap anyways.

GLOVES Barrows RFD Gloves - I just realised how boring our glove slot is...

SHIELD (when you don't need defence) Arcane Spirit Shield > Mage's Book > Unholy Book

SHIELD (when defence is needed) Divine Spirit Shield = Arcane Spirit Shield - A judgement call here, but considering that most magic isnt even used at bosses, who cares?

WEAPON Chaotic Staff = Staff of Light = Master Wand - Chaotic staff for Damage, Master wand for accuracy, Staff of light for a nice middle ground and rune savings.

 

MISCELLANEOUS GEAR EVERYONE MIGHT WANT:

 

Full Slaver Helmet - for all of your Slayer needs

Full Elite Void with all helmets and a deflector (it's just fun to have TBH)

Salve Amulet (e)

Fighter torso (for a cheap BCP replacement)

Bandos Godsword (idk, if you do a lot of corp???)

 

That should cover the basics.

[Youmu]

RANGED:

WEAPONS Hand Cannon = Rune Knives/Darts = Chaotic Crossbow - Each has their niche use, will change to the situation

You forgot dragon darts, just saying.

[Zaaps1]

Also, MSB + Rune arrows is better DPS than darts/crossbow in certain instances, I believe, and Karil's xbow is generally 1 step below the handcannon and 1 step above darts.

[IHasChicken]

RANGED:

WEAPONS Hand Cannon = Rune Knives/Darts = Chaotic Crossbow - Each has their niche use, will change to the situation

You forgot dragon darts, just saying.

 

Rune Knives = Dragon Darts really.

 

And I blanked on the Karil's Xbow, i'll add it it now

[Youmu]

Rune Knives = Dragon Darts really.

 

And I blanked on the Karil's Xbow, i'll add it it now

Exactly. Dragon darts are cheaper than rune knives so there's no reason to not pick that over knives. (Unless I'm missing something here...)

 

Speaking of which, most knives are more expensive than darts...

[IHasChicken]

Rune Knives = Dragon Darts really.

 

And I blanked on the Karil's Xbow, i'll add it it now

Exactly. Dragon darts are cheaper than rune knives so there's no reason to not pick that over knives. (Unless I'm missing something here...)

 

Speaking of which, most knives are more expensive than darts...

 

Rune knives only have a 40 Ranged Requirement, Dragon darts have a 60 Ranged one.

 

So when people make their crappy little obby maulers, they need rune knives on them.

 

No idea for the other metals.

[Youmu]

Actually, disregard my other post up there. I was wrong #-o

 

Rune knives actually have better stats than dragon darts. That explains why they are so expensive then. That and the ranged requirement.

[Gse]

Void set if you wanna be awesome like I am :D

[Wkw]

Just off the top of my head...

 

Elite gear:

Torva/prenix/virtuis helm/plate/legs

Divine/ely of the dungeoneering shields

Chaotic rapier/maul, chaotic staff/sol, chaotic xbow

fury

dragon boots

onyx i/zerker i

rfd gloves

soul wars/fire cape or the über cape

 

High-gear

bandos chest, tassets /armadyl chest, skirt / ahrims top, bottom

dragon defender, crystal shield, thats about it really

whip/rapier, sol, rune xbow

fury

dboots

zerker or dstone i

rfd gloves

trimmed skill cape, sw, fire cape

 

med-lvl gear

barrows

low-lvl gear:

rune

[Dr_Vermin]

For ranged, mercenary's gloves give better dps than barrows gloves if you don't need defence.

[Sir_Squab]

MAGIC:

 

WEAPON Chaotic Staff = Staff of Light = Master Wand - Chaotic staff for Damage, Master wand for accuracy, Staff of light for a nice middle ground and rune savings.

 

Where do you really need the +3 mage attack or whatever the master wand adds? +3 mage attack is not going to be more useful then the 5% extra damage* sol adds or the 10% extra damage* the chaotic staff adds. The only thing the master wand has going for it imo is that mage pures can use it.

 

*In the magic damage column.

 

Also, what's the amulet of ranging like compared to fury again? Overall your list was pretty damn good but a few areas not 100% accurate.

[Soma2035]

MAGIC:

 

WEAPON Chaotic Staff = Staff of Light = Master Wand - Chaotic staff for Damage, Master wand for accuracy, Staff of light for a nice middle ground and rune savings.

 

Where do you really need the +3 mage attack or whatever the master wand adds? +3 mage attack is not going to be more useful then the 5% extra damage* sol adds or the 10% extra damage* the chaotic staff adds. The only thing the master wand has going for it imo is that mage pures can use it.

 

*In the magic damage column.

 

Also, what's the amulet of ranging like compared to fury again? Overall your list was pretty damn good but a few areas not 100% accurate.

 

When you're PKing, magic attack can often matter more. For instance, while TBing / Entangling, I'd take an extra .5% accuracy over an additional 10% damage (on a wonderful max hit of 30) any day. It sort of applies to Ancients too - you're usually trying to force them to change to mage pray and/or freeze them. You'll lose a lot more kills because you didn't have 20 more seconds to deal damage than you will because the 3-4 casts you used didn't do 10% more damage.

[Aten]

3a ranged is missing from that list

[Saradomin_Mage]

3rd age ranged is pretty much the same as black dragonhide, which itself didn't make the cut.

The coif is just under armadyl, though, in terms of range bonus.